Stocks finished higher Thursday as investors set aside some concerns about downbeat economic reports and focused on strong profits from Oracle.

Corporate results and economic news offered investors a mixed picture and kept stocks fluctuating throughout much of the session. Oracle’s upbeat results poked holes in Wall Street’s recent pessimism, and even a report from Bear Stearns of its first-ever quarterly loss seemed to offer relief to those fearing its results could have been worse.

Bond prices fell. The yield on the 10-year Treasury note, which moves opposite its price, rose to 4.05 percent from 4.03 percent late Wednesday.

Intuitive Surgical paid $30.4 million in cash on March 5 for a more than three-decade-old building about two blocks from its current headquarters, which are on Kifer Road in Sunnyvale, according to Santa Clara County property records.

House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Elijah Cummings, D-Md., said in a letter sent Thursday to White House Counsel Pat Cipollone that the administration has failed to produce documents tied to Kushner and other officials despite requests from the committee since 2017.